Open Stack

I agree with Jonathan that the decision ultimately rests with the track
chairs for the case study track.
In my opinion, ff the track is already crowded with proposals, perhaps the
best thing to do is to invite HMRC and Datacentred to submit a talk for
Barcelona; otherwise an invited talk might be considered.

The hard question for the chairs of the case study track is to understand
how compelling is this use case for the OpenStack users and operators
community.
As for the comparison brought up by Florian, I don't think this sort of
talk comes with any "PR risk".

On another note, this might explain why this year HMRC ended up processing
my payment after the deadline even if I made it well before it... If I'm
slapped with a penalty I now know who I should complain with...

Salvatore


On 8 February 2016 at 09:40, Florian Haas <florian at hastexo.com> wrote:

> One additional point here. I don't know about what others think, but
> one major government user story we had at a Summit was the NSA, a few
> months prior to Snowden. I don't think that there's anything the
> Summit organizers for Portland are to be blamed for, because it wasn't
> public knowledge at the time that Five Eyes are essentially spying on
> citizens across the planet. But I can tell you that if *I* had been
> the one that made the decision at the time to put them on stage, in
> front of an international community a large portion of which the
> speaker would be expected to treat as adversaries and targets, I'd be
> immensely retroactively embarrassed.
>
> Now clearly I don't want to equate national legal tax collection with
> offensive and indiscriminate global blanket surveillance, but I do
> believe that any superuser stories, keynotes etc. should receive extra
> scrutiny and vetting from Summit organizers, particularly when they
> come from government agencies. In Portland this community was new and
> not under much media scrutiny, so we got some breaks; I think we don't
> get those anymore.
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Matt Jarvis
> <matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk> wrote:
> > Yep, agree with all your comments, although to be fair they are not
> really
> > engaged with the community so weren't aware about the Summits. They were
> > planning to blog about it, and I suggested they should submit something.
> >
> > If it had been just another commercial company implementing it, I
> wouldn't
> > have brought it up, but given it's a major world government I thought
> it's a
> > pretty important story for OpenStack adoption.
>
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